13/19 It would have made me laugh had I not been so savage. Carew turned us both out of the house together. His love of truth would not permit him, it seems, to harbor us. So Jack and I went to the inn, played _ecarte_ all night, and parted the best of friends this morning. But I'll be even with that fellow Fane--yes; by Heaven, I will, if it's a score of years hence!" Perhaps the light satiric tone which the young man had used throughout his narrative was little in accordance with the feelings which really agitated him; but, at all events, his last few words were full of malignant passion. |